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The Women’s Premier Futsal League Due To Launch in 2016

Major League Futsal will be launching the official premier league for women in 2016, the WPFL will play alongside the NPFL in the summer league, in hopes of gaining enough traction to launch the MLF Professional Women’s League in 2017. With so many women’s teams calling the MLF main office asking when the MLF is going to launch a women’s side to the MLF. MLF decided that there is no better time like the present time.

The WPFL will operate under the sanction of U.S. Futsal and will be the governed by the board of the directors of MLF. For the 2016 season the WPFL will perform under MLF exhibition status, giving new programs a chance to play in a structured competitive league without all the national travel. The league will be kept local and regional until 2017 when Major League Futsal introduces the MLF Pro Women’s League, that will operate alongside the Men’s division.

Right now there are many MLF teams with an adult women’s side that can play exhibition matches with other teams in their division. But the MLF wants to organize these teams and give them a league of their own. The MLF believes that the women’s side of MLF will take off and provide the youth players in North America a direct pipeline to the pros.

In the future the WPFL will continue to be the springboard for the MLF Pro-Women’s League just like the NPFL will do for the MLF Men’s division.

Futsal is easy to watch, but never easy to play sport. It’s dynamics make players learn, how to do everything fast and avoid any long pauses in the movement. It’s not only important to be able to think and act fast, while defending, but – while in possession of the ball too.

Every futsal player has to be able to control the ball well. A successful futsal player has to have a decent level of 1st touch, passing and shooting. It’s good, if a player can also dribble well.

1. Take it step by step – learn each skills until you feel, you have improved it significantly (even if it’s not ideal yet, you have to feel the difference of how it was before and how much better it is now); only then move to learn another skill.

2. Learn from experience of other futsal players – watch games, watch your teammates, watch your opponents; analyse, what they are doing wrong and what – right; then avoid repeating, what’s wrong and always try to copy, what’s right.

3. Make a ball your best buddy – try to touch the ball as much as you can. When you are training, choose the drills, where the ball can be used instead of drills without the ball. Warming-up? Do it with the ball! Running? Do it with the ball! Resting between the drills? Put the ball by you and let your feet feel it all the time.

4. Start learning each new move with your main foot. When you have mastered the move with the main foot, only then learn the same move with your weaker foot.

5. Be persistent and disciplined during your learning process! To put it simple: always stick to the plan! If you have decided to improve your short passing in two month and have chosen drills for it, then do exactly these drills during exactly two month. Don’t change your routine just because something is not going as easy as you wanted it to be. Remember: improvement is a process and only the most persistent ones succeed.